electroplate
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There are oil paintings on the walls; there is an immense amount of the most expensive electroplate on the dinner table; the toilet accessories in the guest chambers are 'elegant' and recherché.
From Hodge and His Masters by Richard Jefferies
It taught you how to make all sorts of things—galvanic batteries, and kites, and mouse-traps, and how to electroplate things, and how to do wood-carving and leather-work.
From Oswald Bastable and Others by C. E. (Charles Edmund) Brock
He missed the companionship of kindred spirits, and sometimes his memory would play truant, recalling the pleasant glitter of sterling silver and conversational electroplate which accompanied his former London dinner-parties.
From The Parts Men Play by Arthur Beverley Baxter
It was not great oratory after all; it was not true oratory of any kind; but it was a splendid imitation of the real thing—the finest electroplate anywhere to be found.
From Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by Justin McCarthy
But we shall also, in the course of our experiments, find that a cheap metal can be coated with a costly one by means of electricity—that we can electroplate by electrolysis.
From Electricity for Boys by James Slough Zerbe
Next to it, Ms. Van Herpen’s 2012 “Cathedral” dress, 3-D-printed polyamide and electroplated copper, embodies Hamlet’s comment on mankind’s imagination—“how infinite in faculty!”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
For example, gold or silver is often electroplated onto less valuable metals.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 8, 2026
Poor-quality electroplated, galvanized nails or screws could begin to corrode in just a few years.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 3, 2023
Related copper etchings appear in the show, and Barney has electroplated them over varying times, encrusting them with weird metal nodules.
From New York Times ● May 9, 2019
The articles to be silvered are scratch-brushed, washed, and electroplated, till they begin to look undesirably rough.
From On Laboratory Arts by Richard Threlfall
They deposited an extremely thin layer of thorium onto stainless steel using electroplating, a technique commonly used in jewelry.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 8, 2026
They were treated with an electroplating process that fused a copper coating onto the forms, which were finished in bronze.
From New York Times ● May 5, 2023
Electrolysis is the basis for certain ore refining processes, the industrial production of many chemical commodities, and the electroplating of metal coatings on various products.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019
Precious metals such as gold could find their way into the sewers courtesy of mining, electroplating, electronics and jewelry manufacturing, or industrial and automotive catalysts.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 16, 2015
M. will find directions for electroplating on p.
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